Forest hills gardens

The Queens neighborhood is known for its large standalone houses

New York City, the City of Dreams, has five must-visit boroughs for every traveler. These boroughs are Brooklyn, The Bronx, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten

Some years ago, if I was told that I could travel 15-20 minutes out of Manhattan and find myself in a bucolic Tudor-revival village, I’d have dismissed the idea as a greatly distorted exagger…

The PropertyNest analysis ranked the five most expensive and five most affordable spots in the borough.

The 175-acre community of Forest Hills Gardens was inspired by British “garden cities”; it has quaint Norman turrets but also prefabricated wall slabs.

Too often, city planners defer to “context” in the most superficial way—privileging the massing of buildings over the deeper forces that define a neighborhood’s identity.